Stone Signs

There are all kinds of signs in the world, serving a variety of purposes.  Many signs are temporary and many are permanent.  Some are humorous.  Some are serious.  Signs can inform, distract, inspire or depress.  Whatever you  intend the message of your sign to be, the actual material it is made of can enhance it or detract from it.

 

Unfortunately, too often the decision of what material to use is based on what is easiest and cheapest, with no thought of how it affects the message of the sign.  For example, I often see flimsy plastic signs in areas that have frequent high winds.  The intent to use the inexpensive material was to save money and make a good impression by looking nice, but the number of times the sign needed repairing made it an expensive sign in the not very long term.  A sign that is torn up  frequently is not the impression the owners of the organization or business had in mind.  I also see painted wood signs in harsh weather climates that deteriorate in a very few years.  The intent there may be to look natural or use natural material to help the environment, or to just look classy and be strong against high winds.  The results, however, is a sign that looks cheap and gives the impression that the business or organization is fly-by-night, unkept and unprofessional.  It may not have blown down in the wind, but you might wish it had because of how it looked over a few short years.

 

Stone signs are obviously not the answer to every sign application.  Natural stone is usually not a good idea for advertising a yard sale or advertising this week’s sales for a store.   But consider for a moment just how versatile and effective natural stone can be.

 

For practical purposes you have durability that is hard to match.  Not many sign materials can compare to natural stone in being hurricane resistant.  Natural stone signs are also practical because monument-type signs are much easier to get city or county approval.  They are also very much in harmony with our increasingly environmentally aware society.  Some cities only allow signs that are made of natural substances.  Stone signs are also relatively inexpensive to have installed in the first place and  long term they save maintenance costs as well.

 

What I see as the most significant advantage of stone signs is the message they communicate.  Businesses, organizations, communities, churches and families all want to convey messages of stability, integrity, strength, commitment, etc.  I defy anyone to identify a material for a sign that conveys these ideals as clearly and powerfully as solid natural rock.  Natural stone or rock are even the choice of material God uses in getting messages across in the scriptures.

 

Natural Rock Designs has one other advantage to their stone signs that most others do not.  It is the amazing beauty of the natural stone that comes from their quarries.  Natural beauty is one attribute that can only enhance the message of a sign.  Consider the sample pictures I have included here.

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